Time management is never far from my mind.
I know following a calendar keeps everything rolling from week to week, but allowing The Great Timeline to jerk the chain and push it's own agenda, is stupid.
The struggle to have enough time to do the things we want or need to do, is a self administered ailment. Instead of believing that there isn't enough time to get it all done, I believe that it's not important to get it all done.
As the first month of the year closes, here's a New Year's resolution for you. Resolve to do less. I encourage you to strip. Take off all the extra needless obligation you're wearing and stroll around light and bare. I suggest that you make a list of all of your known obligations for the next month, and then throw half of them out the window. Pick a small number of things to become really good at. Otherwise, risk being mediocre at a lot of things.
To you parents, I know you all love your kids, but leave them alone from time to time. Let them just chill out without your input. Let them have a week without dance class or stamp club or play dates. Let'em hang with themselves.
And when you make plans for your future, plan big things, but move forward steadily and gracefully. Don't feel a frantic rush to achieve them. Take careful time to cultivate something that's worth maintaining. And understand that no one gives a crap about who got there quickest.
Take it all off, baby, slowly, and show us what you've got.
Have a great weekend, and Godspeed, John Glenn,
Dave
